Make request handle type configurable

Submitted by Markus Elfring @elfring

Assigned to Ali Abdallah @ali

Link to original bug (#16848)

Description

A change was committed with the subject “Fix type of handle and handle further occurrences of 0” on 2020-05-10. e4a18b5f

The chosen data type for the variable “handle” (and related data structures) has got significant influence on the software behaviour. I would find it helpful to experiment and work also with other data type combinations around the usage of unsigned integers. Thus I suggest to offer a corresponding parameter for the software build configuration. https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/-/blob/f8e6f17dc3abddf9886a68b661c282e407fdebc1/configure.ac#L144

• The type of the argument “handle” of the method “Queue” can vary according to a selected version of this programming interface.

• It is probably nice to choose a smaller data range for system tests (or other restricted run time environments).

  • guint8
  • guint16

Version: 0.2.8